About the job

Job summary

This is a Nationally based role

Job description

Organisation Details 

This is an exciting time to join the MMO as we become an independent coastal state, embedding new repatriated functions and services with an increased focus on the protection and enhancing of the marine environment.

Job description 

Accountabilities and responsibilities

• Creating and maintaining training material within the MMO’s bespoke Learning Management System (LMS)
• Ensuring technical training material is aligned with requirements identified in the Operations Training Team’s Training Matrix
• Working with other teams to identify their training needs
• Developing high quality innovative training content to explain often complex regulatory material
• Delivering training in multiple formats to operational staff and external organisations as required and to a high standard
• Ensuring that training delivery is aligned with training requirements and that Operations staff receive all of the training they need to perform their roles. This will involve working with Team Leaders to find out what the training needs of their teams are.
• Mentoring new entrant enforcement officers through their training, development and assessment and carry out Quality Assurance throughout
• Supporting the MMO’s Marine Enforcement Officer Accredited Qualification process through the provision of technical training and assessment

Key knowledge and skills for the role

Essential

• Experience of working in a Training, Teaching or Coaching role, or working in an environment that involves training delivery
• Excellent communication skills – An ability to communicate complex regulations and procedures to a variety of audiences in different formats, in particular through verbal presentation.
• Strong IT capability to quickly get up to speed with MMO databases, and to support development of online training material on the MMO’s Learning Management System and SharePoint 365 sites
• Ability to effectively manage own time and prioritise tasks
• Capability to translate complex regulations into effective and engaging training material
• Flexible working hours and ability to travel within the UK and occasionally travel abroad
• Full clean driving licence

Desirable

• Some knowledge of the marine environment, fisheries management and fisheries legislation
• A warranted Marine Enforcement Officer (MEO) capable of undertaking the full range of enforcement duties
• Experience conducting vocational based assessments
• Previous experience with developing e-learning packages
• Previous experience of conducting Quality Assurance within a working environment
• Availability to work offshore for periods of 2 weeks (infrequently)

Competencies for the role

The following four competencies have been identified as relevant to this role and should be demonstrated at HEO level.

• Leading and Communicating
• Changing and Improving
• Delivering at Pace
• Collaborating and Partnering

Candidates that are invited for interview will be asked to demonstrate and provide an example of each of these competencies in the interview.

A full explanation of each competency including behavioural indicators, can be found in the Marine Management Organisation competency framework here.

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £31,614, Marine Management Organisation contributes £8,567 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

Please refer to Job Description

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.